User Experience Visual Designer Jobs in Reston, VA

C. Mack Solutions is seeking a UI/UX Designer with agile methodology experience to join our team and support a complex program to provide Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems on a mission-critical program for the Federal Government. The UI/UX Designer will serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing UI/UX design and development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. Responsible for activities associated with software projects by working in close collaboration with business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualizing and designing custom software application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight.
• Lead the design of a cohesive look-and-feel and standardized user experience across the applications.
• Taking a leadership role in collaborations between the creative strategy, UX, visual design, development team, and client to create effective design strategies.
• Developing compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives
• Collaborating with cross discipline team to create and execute experience style guides, interaction patterns, and information design standards
• Develop wireframes, mockups, and/or prototypes supporting design ideas and effectively communicate ideas to various stakeholders.
• Establish standard layout and style libraries across applications.
• Work closely the functional team to determine feasibility of requirements and collaborate on design ideas and improvements.
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team

You must live within the DC, MD, VA area.

U.S. Citizenship is required. Candidate must have an Active CBP Public Trust.

• Degree in a related field, such as Interactive Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Graphic Design or Human Factors and seven (7) years of related experience
• Experience working collaboratively to communicate effectively through websites and web applications that are easy for real people to use and responsive across all device viewports
• Professional Experience: 7 + years’ experience as a visual designer, interaction designer, experience designer or a similar role
• Professional experience with enterprise UI design tools such as Figma (preferred), Axure, or similar tools
• Professional experience communicating designs with stakeholders such as product owners, end users, development teams, and management
• Ability to understand trade-offs between designs, technical feasibility, and maintenance
• Knowledge of modern front-end systems and open source frameworks (Angular)
• Ensure applications are intuitive, effective, and deliver the customer value defined by program management
• Move design projects through the product design process, including discovery, concept, detailed design and implementation, facilitating progress at each stage
• Use your passion for solving tough user challenges through great design.
• Influence design and experience across all applications to ensure a valuable and consistent customer experience.
• Experience defining design systems and design standards for enterprise use
• Establish and champion UX design vision, standards, and best practices to peers and program leaders that align with program goals.
• Stay current on important industry and customer trends to ensure our applications are delivering relevant solutions.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders inside the company and with customer groups to drive effective solutions.
• Design, visualize and communicate the user experience for our products through concepts, maps, diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity visuals and other artifacts
• Use data, validation, and feedback strategies that deliver designs backed by qualitative and quantities testing.
• Experience with responsive and mobile-first design
• Willing to take risks and champion new ideas.
• Have experience designing applications, from consumer facing to internal tools
• Maintain a user-centered approach while respecting business needs
• Able to work and be effective in an agile design environment
• Working knowledge of and ability to assist others in the use of design tools to support process improvement (Figma, Axure, Sketch, Invision, XD, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic and a self-starter

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Design Thinking certifications such as those offered through IDEO, Stanford, Cornell, MIT or a host of other organizations.
• Proven experience designing for web accessibility (Section 508 standards)
• Experience with information architecture.
• Ability and interest in educating others on user-centered design best practices
• Advanced understanding of Lean processes, and Agile principles
• Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas
• Additionally, familiarity with any of the following is highly desirable: HTML, Angular, CSS, JavaScript